How to spot the book club scam | Brief letters
Carolyn Steedman Leamington Spa, Warwickshire • John Crace – who is always stimulating – says we are in “what is forecast to be the toughest decade for the country on record” (Digested week, 30 October).
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- Then will follow a request for a modest fee, for “distribution” of my text.
- I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back, 1 November).
Last week I told “Anna” from Amherst (or was it “Vanessa” from Vancouver?) that I had forwarded her email to [email protected].
I get two or three emails like this a month, promising me attentive reading of one or other of my books from 500 members.
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